Nice, guys. I happen to know a girl who was stick thin until she got cancer, lost a leg, and could no longer excercise without buying an expensive prosthesis. She gained at least 50 pounds. Being overweight isn't itself a disability, but it's often caused by one.

3:25, I think gaining 50 pounds would make anyone "fat"... or, at least "on the heavy side". But, even without a leg, you can still exercise. Especially in a pool- aqua-jogging, water aerobics, upper body swimming.... I hate to say it, but I have a feeling that might be a fake story. If not, though, that seriously sucks.

....maybe she didn't want to have to cross broadway at thirty-fourth and just took the bus to get far enough west so that she wouldn't get stressed out, conned in front of old navy into giving a "spa representative" her credit card numbers, and eventually trampeled by smelly people loitering around conway, before she even got to the subway.

^ Agreed. I'm thin and perfectly happy; there may be others who are not, but the point is that it's foolish to generalize. You may be fat and happy, but I'm sure for every one of you there are several self-loathing, miserable fat girls.

I used to be a fatty, got preggo, and now I weigh less than before and I'm still losing.
You know what motivates me? This stupid fatty that works with me. She annoys the hell out of me with her laziness and presence in general. I don't want people to associate me with her just bc we are both fat, so I'm not fat anymore!

1:36-- 1:33 is right. why is it so important to some whether or not people respect their bodies and stay fit? i choose to do that, but if i encounter a fat person who doesn't care that they're fat, it's no friggin' sweat off my back. chill out.

There are fat, lazy people. There are also fat, in pain people. You try hauling 100 extra pounds two blocks and then decide if you would have just taken the bus instead.
And yes, I'm a former fatazz, now marathon runner, and the transformation was way more difficult than you ever would dream of because when you're so fat that walking causes injuries, where do you start? Aside from sitting on dumbazz skinny people, I mean.

If I remember my American history correctly, a really fat chick named Rosa Parks got sick and tired of sitting up the back of the bus with all the other fat people so one day she sat up the front with all the thin and good-looking people.

2:31. I'm confused....You said this girl was "stick thin" which implys she was well below the average weight for her height. Then you said she lost a leg and due to inactivity gained 50 pounds...so it's not her fault that she got "fat". Now what I'm confused about is how someone goes from "Stick thin" to "fat" in 50 pounds? Wouldn't that make her go from "stick thin" to "thin"?

i have a horrible horrible feeling that was me.. lol
if its going to school with lots of bags, 2 blocks can be the difference between making it through the day and slipping into a microsleep and sleepwalking into ongoing traffic... we cant have that can we?